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Originally Posted by TheDon
It's not as simple as that.
The boxes have to have a chipset that is capable of running said player.
It's not like a PC where you have the processing grunt to do whatever you feel like, these are specialist chipsets with highly specialised instruction sets that do a limited amount of tasks extremely well, and that's about it. Everything they do is hardware accelerated, whereas a PC you can just do it in software.
If the chipset the boxes run don't support flash then no amount of code dropping will bring them flash support.[COLOR="Silver"]
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I'm aware of that, but do you know what exactly is inside the Sky+HD box?
The original TiVo took everyone by surprise by what it was capable of doing.
And they wouldn't necessarily need Flash support. There is already a BigScreen implementation of iPlayer that doesn't use Flash - the interface is HTML and the video is h.264 - that could easily distribute one of the many formats the BBC have on the backend in storage for each video asset - I'd suspect the box will have the decoder to play one of them.